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Monica Gerges

Monica Gerges

Humanity Wasn’t Made to Live Like This: Reflections on Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack

The preacher would always say, “We need to put God in our lives.”

Mar 30, 2018

Humanity Wasn’t Made to Live Like This: Reflections on Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack

Mar 30, 2018

Monica Gerges

Beyond The Barriers of Religiosity: Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Spirituality, and Religious Society

When Jordan removed religious affiliation from their national ID cards in 2016, the world felt a glimmer of hope for the Middle East; that…

Mar 30, 2018

Beyond The Barriers of Religiosity: Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Spirituality, and Religious Society

Mar 30, 2018

Monica Gerges

Digital Media Narcissism: On Poverty Porn Selfies and What Drives Us to Post

Standing at the eL Seed exhibit at Art Talks not too long ago, I watched as some of the artist’s Manshiyet Nasser family walked in to find…

Sep 4, 2017

Digital Media Narcissism: On Poverty Porn Selfies and What Drives Us to Post

Sep 4, 2017

Monica Gerges

Confessions of a Confused Twentysomething: Sex Ed With an Egyptian Taxi Driver

Cab rides in Egypt are like a box of chocolate; you never know what you’re gonna get. You could get Sha3by FM, you could get the Quran, you…

Sep 4, 2017

Confessions of a Confused Twentysomething: Sex Ed With an Egyptian Taxi Driver

Sep 4, 2017

Monica Gerges

Confessions of a Confused 20-Something

WTF Am I Doing With My Life?

Sep 2, 2017

Confessions of a Confused 20-Something

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

Confessions of a Confused Twentysomething: Welcome to Your Twenties

If real life were anything like the movies, I’d have a killer ass and be a successful writer with superfluous amounts of disposable income…

Sep 2, 2017

Confessions of a Confused Twentysomething: Welcome to Your Twenties

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

Why I Quit My Job to Explore Egypt

“Egypt is great if you fly in straight to Sharm and then stop over in Cairo for just a day to see family before you fly back out.”

Sep 2, 2017

Why I Quit My Job to Explore Egypt

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

In Search of Home: Why I Picked Up My Life and Moved Back to Egypt

The events that transpired over the past year or so of my life are, in and of themselves, the makings of a peculiar narrative and a…

Sep 2, 2017

In Search of Home: Why I Picked Up My Life and Moved Back to Egypt

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

Moments

One of the most difficult decisions to make is choosing between what you want in the moment and what you know will be infinitely better for…

Sep 2, 2017

Moments

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

To Be Free

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. — Galatians 5:13

Sep 2, 2017

To Be Free

Sep 2, 2017

Monica Gerges

Monica Gerges

Welcome to your twenties: a freak shitshow that no one really understands, but we’re all trying to figure it out without getting killed (or fat). Join me?

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